Seattle attorney charged with rapes of four massage therapists

Seattle attorney Danford “Dan” Grant was charged today with six felony charges in connection with the alleged rapes of four massage therapists in Seattle, Shoreline and Bellevue, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Grant is charged with first-degree rape, second-degree rape and attempted second-degree rape for the alleged attacks on two women at a massage salon in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood.

Grant is also charged with first-degree rape and first-degree burglary in connection with the Aug. 19 rape of a massage therapist who was working from her home in Shoreline. He is also charged with first-degree rape for the alleged attack on a massage therapist at knife point in Bellevue on Aug. 28.

Grant, 47, is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 11. He is being held in the King County Jail in lieu of $3 million bail.

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